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by rudin 5803 days ago
I'm finishing up a mathematics degree so I'll tackle question A from my perspective.

If you know how to program a CS degree can be very tedious. This is mainly why I made the switch to mathematics. On the other side mathematics will teach you many things that are fairly archaic as the discipline has not really caught up with the advances in computing over the last few decades.

Both are good for what you want. If I could do it again though I would select a few CS courses (fp etc), some mathematics (graph theory, algebra, cryptography), and actually major in a liberal arts area like linguistics.

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Do you feel that your programming skills have increased due to your mathematics studies(I make a difference between programming and problem solving, this is maybe the wrong way to see it?)?

Why is it that you would have majored in another area if you where to do it all again?

My plan is to use logical reasoning, problem solving and mathematical knowledge in lots of different fields outside computer science hence the main interest in mathematical studies.

Computers have been my Nr. 1 interest for as long as I can remember but I don“t think that I want to WORK with them for more than about 15-20 years, there Is so much more to do, music, building stuff, working with people on a non technical level etc.

Anyways, thanks for the reply!